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The Government will hand over leaked Brexit economic forecasts to MPs, Downing Street has said, in a climbdown by Prime Minister Theresa May.

Mrs May had told reporters as she travelled to China on a trade trip that publishing such analysis would be "wrong" and “might prejudice our negotiating position” with the European Union.

But with the prospect of MPs voting on Wednesday afternoon to force the Government to release the forecasts the Prime Minister has now performed a U-turn.

Mrs May has also rebuked one of her ministers for openly suggesting that Brexit could be reversed if the gloomy forecasts about the UK’s future outside the European Union were proven to be “anywhere near right”.